Welcome to Flitter: Express, concisely.

What is Flitter?

Flitter is an MVC style framework that aims to get you up and running faster by providing a structure and a wrapper for Express.js. Files in predictable directories are parsed into routes, middleware, controllers, models, and views. But, you are still working in a comfortable and well-supported Express environment.

Flitter provides access to the Express app, while making it possible to create an app without needing to piece together the Express framework.

Flitter's 1st party packages provide:

Express for routing

Mongoose for ORM

User auth & sessions (see below)

Form-based request validation with error sessions

A development CLI tool with interactive shell

Task-scheduling with Agenda

and more...

How?

Getting started with Flitter is easy. To create a new project, simply run the following commands:

And voilà! You should have a Flitter app up and running on port 8000 by default.

Why?

Flitter's creator is a former Laravel junkie, but loves Node and Express. He got tired of having to hammer out the same 500 lines of code to start every project, but didn't want the bulk and obfuscation of larger frameworks like AdonisJS.

Flitter is designed to be compartmentalized and easy to understand. Every piece of its core functionality is broken into "units." Each of these units does some task like loading config, parsing middleware, connecting to the database, etc. You can see exactly what units your application is loading by viewing the Units file in config/Units.flitter.js. Each of Flitter's core units are open to view in the libflitter package.

Of course, this also means that Flitter is extremely easy to extend. If you want to add a custom package, simply require it and add its unit to the Units file!

Who?

Flitter was created by Garrett Mills, and its use is governed by the terms of the MIT License as specified in the LICENSE file in the main repo.